Read a Sept. 3, 2004, Associated Press story about Seventeen magazine starting a new section on faith.

The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a nonprofit group that tries to help parents and other adults better understand youth culture.

Read the results of a national study funded by the John Templeton Foundation on spirituality in higher education conducted between 2003 and 2010. The study was conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles and includes responses from thousands of undergraduates at diverse colleges and universities from around the U.S.

See summaries of research findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion, funded by the Lilly Endowment and based at the University of North Carolina. From July 2002 to March 2003, the researchers conducted a random nationwide telephone survey of 3,370 teenagers ages 13 to 17 and their parents, and followed that up with 267 […]

Christianity Today publishes Ignite Your Life, a news and resource source for teens.

This April 2004 Pew Internet & American Life survey found that 64 percent of wired Americans have used the Internet for spiritual purposes.

This March 31, 2006, article in The New York Times cites a long-awaited study that showed prayer offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, and patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications.

This 2007 report by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University’s Tisch College and released jointly with the National Conference on Citizenship found that 25 percent of young adults who have attended college volunteered in 2007 while only 11 percent of those with no college experience volunteered. This gap has […]

Independent Sector provides a useful list of recent studies on giving and volunteering.